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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

March 26, 2004

TINKERBELL OFFENDED

To whom it may concern

I take quite deep offence at some of the comments left by people who have no idea who I am made about me on here.

You should consider ASKING people if they mind having their websites ridiculed by people who care not about personal feelings of the people they are poking fun at. I was neither contacted or informed about this until someone left a comment on my guestbook informing me of this hurtful page.

I would appreciate a reply and apology for the offence this page has caused me.

Seems to me when you create a public website on the Internet, you're inviting praise, ridicule, or whatever reaction the general public chooses to dish out. Claire Watts seems to regard her website as an extension of her personal, private space, instead of the electronic equivalent of a billboard on the "electronic superhighway."

She can be offended by the comments, even resent the those who made them, but I don't see that you owe her any apology for linking to her site without asking her first. That's the nature of the beast.

For retribution, perhaps Tinkerbell would like to create her own blog and ridicule THIS blog by posting links to Dave Barry's columns and offering space for comments on his work. The readership of this blog could battle back and forth with the readership of her blog in an epic battle of ridicule until finally we were able to organize the final showdown - a game of "pétanque" between Dave and Tinkerbell!

I am so ashamed that I laughed at such a #$%*&^%$#@$%^&& fruitcake. The pangs of guilt are almost overwhelming. I promise that I'll try to do better in the future.I just have to keep telling myself "self, fairies,fruitcakes, wackos, morons and idiots have feelings too". There. I feel better already.

Yea for petanque! I prefer bocce, but it's about the same principle. Got to boast here: my dad's a champion bocce player in his native Italy. Yep, he's won an assortment of prizes at local tournaments including (I am dead serious): a wheel of cheese, a slab of ham, a large sausage, and almost won a live pig once. Thankfully he placed second that time.

Yes gfunksizzle, that might be true. But I don't figure we'd have to do much rumbling. You see, they'd have to write and ask first before ridiculing us, and we'd all just say no. It'd be an unfair match - I just was just trying to bait 'em into it.

Tink - you're obviously kidding. You're a kidder. Right? As far as ASKING goes, I
dont' remember being asked if you could put up
your website where God and eveybody can see it?
Maybe I missed that memo, dawlin'. But, anyway,
how could anyone be offended by anything this hell-bound blog posts? We simply CARE enough to SHARE. By the way, as a public service, we refrain from posting pics of ourselves (except for his Daveness, in whose blog we trust, and allegedly judi). I humbly suggest that in the future you do same. Thanks for the review.

Ya know, Tink, posting something on a public website means that ANYBODY can see it. You did know that, didn't you? And you realized that not everybody is going to be a fan of your little...thing that you do with the costumes and whatnot. In fact, some people are apt to find it funny. Those people are readers of this blog.

If you want to keep your privacy/dignity/self immune from ridicule, don't post your life on the internet. Unless your life is utterly dull. Then nobody will ever link to it and you will toil in quiet obscurity til you die.

Anyway, check out the initial suggestions. They were good. Either password-protect it, take it off the 'net, or quit whining.

Go Blognik! You tell 'em! as a web designer with many websites both professional and personal out there I completely agree. If it's private, protect it. Otherwise expect feedback and don't get offended when it comes.

By the way, did it strike anyone as odd that Tink addressed her message to the operator of this blog as "To Whom It May Concern"? Even though it's, uh, "Dave Barry's Blog"? As if she wasn't really sure who was in charge of this blog?

Tink, Tan, and Dr.K: The difference between you and the Regular Blog Denizens (otherwise called "bloglits") is that when you make fun of us, we really don't care. When we make fun of you, you do care. That's the difference.

If you make fun of Dave or judi, though, you will get seriously flamed. If that's what you're after, you might try that.

elfbrains, the winnie the pooh outfit would qualify for it's own topic! Is that you on the website? Even better, you goofy karaoke geek! Can we get a video of you singing in the winnie the pooh outfit? Well use it in a public service message urging people not to let their kids do karaoke!
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There's your requested ridicule, courtesy of Lee, who only spends 3 or more nights a week in a karaoke bar... And does a killer version of Smooth... At least, everybody thinks so at 1:30...

Sweetpea, the Internet is a PUBLIC FORUM. That means that mean, evil people like us sometimes come along and MAKE FUN OF OTHERS. You may be interested to know that J.M. Barrie did not write the script for all of life.

Look, what's really wierd, someone posted this just today in the comments section of the original post:

>Barbiguinness above: You lunatic!! DO you >actually believe you're a barbie that drinks >guinness??? Hahahaha

>well... er no.

>I doubt very much he/she does.

I'm not really sure what that means. Not that it matters, but Barbi Guinness is my name. First name Barbi (no "e", short for Barbara), last name Guinness. And I do drink Guinness. I'm still confused...what?
Was this person defending the Tinkerbell girl? I didn't even say anything about her. I couldn't find anything that I said about her anyway. I said something about a picture of Flinstones characters f-cking eachother on the wall of a punk club in Austin. Was she offended by that?
I'm still extremely confused.

Leetie, thank you for that insightful comment. It's obvious that you're trying to "alleviate [your] own shameful and well deserved feelings of deep personal inadequacy." Either that, or you're just jealous.

Leetie, what my Ibis does to me is between me and the ibis.
In addition, I would just like to say that I actually thought this chick's website was kinda cute and funny when I first saw it. I even thought it was really cool that she had a couple of links to sites selling corsets, which I had been trying to find for a while.
I'd still like to thank Tink of the Damned for bringing this up again. This line of comments has been the funniest I've read in a long time. You guys are a bloody riot!

I don't think it's fair to get pissy about a guest book entry when you wrote, "Sign my guest book or I'll cry." Drama like that just begs for ridicule. Begging often accompanying a little "affectionate hurting", of course.

Barbiguinness, dear lady, don't fret. I have made yet another deal with Cerberus for his munchies. In the meantime, I was more than a little late for all this Tink backlash (bet she quivered in excstacy over that one ;-) but I am aware now and Hell follows with me....

Eadn, I'm even more late to the gate than you today, but my 2 pennies are this.

If you post your strange proclivities on the World Wide Web, and don't expect people that think that it may be humorous, and maybe share the laugh with others, then I have on way to state your mind set.